Unlimited Psychic Squad....Bit different

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Andie liked Japan well enough, she supposed. She had never visited before her rather unorthodox career had become a necessity, but with her heritage this was a country she could easily blend in. Espers and normals were the same as everywhere else, so she could always find work to do.

She avoided Tokyo, though. Their esper-surveillance organisation, B.A.B.E.L., was based there and she had a strong policy of avoiding this type of agencies.

“Tokyo?” she said, stopping dead in the street. Her stomach dropped. Her hand clenched around the phone. “I thought we had agreed to meet in Nagoya?”

“Something has come up,” Hyoubu said.

Talk about an understatement.

“You mean that huge assault B.A.B.E.L. just led to try and keep the Catastrophe from entering the country?” she drawled. “That kind of something?”

“Oh, so you do watch TV,” Hyoubu teased back, but his voice lacked something. He sounded distracted.

“I don’t see how I could have missed it, it’s been all over the news. Hyoubu... Is everything alright? Why meet in Tokyo? That’s just under B.A.B.E.L.’s nose.”

“You will meet with Yugiri in Nagoya as planned. Momiji will bring her, so be on your best behaviour.”

“Momiji?” she repeated dumbly. “What about you?”

“I have business in Tokyo. Someone has to oversee the reparations of the Catastrophe.”

Andie opened her mouth without finding anything to say. It all sounded reasonable. The assault had been really over the top, no wonder the Catastrophe would need reparations. But some unknown instinct was screaming at her that something was wrong. Hyoubu was the type to delegate, right? She had never missed a single visit before.

Why was she overthinking this? She would still get to see Yugiri, and without having to go to Tokyo. It’s not like he could do much if Hyoubu or P.A.N.D.R.A. were in trouble.

It was still hard to choke out an agreement.

When they came to join her, neither Yugiri nor Momiji showed signs that anything was amiss. She tried to test the waters with Momiji, but the other was pretty flippant about the attack.

“I guess it’s a little weird,” she only conceded. “B.A.B.E.L. isn’t usually so insistent. It was touch and go for a while there. We could have used your talents.”

She was smirking, which turned the complaint into a playful little jab, so Andie let it go.

“And you don’t think that’s something to be worried about?”

“We’ve dealt with B.A.B.E.L. for a while, you know. We can handle them. As long as we have the Major with us, we can handle anything.”

“Hyoubu is that strong?” she blinked.

She just smiled. She truly believed in what she was saying.

Andie didn’t doubt Hyoubu’s powers, precisely. She had never really seen them in action, aside from the odd bout of telekinesis or teleportation, but he had to be good to lead an organisation like P.A.N.D.R.A. Still...

“Isn’t it a little too much to rely on one guy like this? He’s only human, you know.”

Momiji’s smile turned into a small and private thing. Yugiri had stopped to look at a shop display, so, in a hushed voice, she took the opportunity to tell the ginger her story. How war had wrenched her from home and safety when she was just a child and Hyoubu had taken her in, given back to her and others what they had lost: a family.